CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers won't get style points for Sunday's 87-86 win over the Philadelphia 76ers.
And that's just fine with LeBron James.
Moving 21/2 games ahead of Chicago for second place in the Eastern Conference was all...

Joe Johnson and Brook Lopez each scored 20 points, and the Brooklyn Nets snapped the Cleveland Cavaliers' four-game winning streak with a 106-98 victory on Friday night.
Bojan Bogdanovic added 18 points for the Nets, who held LeBron James to two...

The Cleveland Cavaliers' recent dominance carried over to a trouncing of one of the best teams in the Western Conference.
The Cavaliers built a 29-point lead in the third quarter, maintained the cushion through the fourth and defeated Memphis 111-89 on...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. The Cavaliers have delivered more messages over the last two months than the postal service. For that reason, no one involved really thought they needed to make another statement Wednesday night against the Memphis Grizzlies.
But they...

CLEVELAND There was a time not long ago when the playoff berth the Cavaliers clinched Friday night would've come with a bigger party and a louder ovation.
They already celebrate every victory like a Game 7 championship by dropping confetti and blowing fire out of the scoreboard after the song's end. In that regard, Friday's victory felt no different.
LeBron James has been so good for so long, he has a habit of making the extraordinary feel rather ordinary. It's what will cost him the Most Valuable...

LeBron James didn't let a nasty head cold stop him from two appointments — seeing his son perform at school and getting the Cavaliers into the playoffs.
James scored 29 points — 13 in the fourth quarter— and Cleveland edged the Indiana Pacers 95-92 on Friday night for its 15th consecutive victory at home.
As usual, James, who was feeling so ill that he stayed behind in the locker room at halftime, was at his best down the stretch. He scored 11 straight points in the fourth to give...

LeBron James didn't let a nasty head cold stop him from two appointments — seeing his son perform at school and getting the Cavaliers into the playoffs.
James scored 29 points — 13 in the fourth quarter— and Cleveland edged the Indiana Pacers 95-92 on Friday night for its 15th straight win at home.
As usual, James, who was feeling so ill that he stayed behind in the locker room at halftime, was at his best down the stretch. He scored 11 straight points in the fourth to give Cleveland a...

Cavaliers coach David Blatt had seen enough, more than enough.
After his team's sixth turnover in the game's first minutes, a disgusted Blatt called timeout and gave his players some very specific instructions.
"Stop turning the ball over," he told them.
The Cavs listened and then lit up the Nets.
J.R. Smith and Timofey Mozgov scored 17 points apiece, Kyrie Irving had 10 assists and the Cavaliers shook off the sluggish, sloppy start to win their 14th straight home game, 117-92 over Brooklyn on...

CLEVELAND Kevin Love returned from a two-game absence with 10 points and 11 rebounds and the Cavaliers recovered from a sluggish start to easily handle the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday night, 117-92.
LeBron James had 16 points and seven assists and Kyrie Irving had 12 points and 10 assists for the Cavs, who made 15 3-pointers and had seven players in double figures in scoring. The Cavs committed six turnovers within the game's first five minutes, allowing the Nets to race out to 22-9 lead. But the Cavs...

Some old habits are best left unbroken.
For more than three decades, from 1977 to 2010, it became almost a given that at least one ACC squad would reach the men's Final Four. The habit grew so ingrained, we almost took it for granted.
Not anymore.
During those 34 years of competitive prominence, the ACC saw 31 of its teams advance to the national semifinals. From 1981 through 2005, a quarter-century at the core of that run, there were only four seasons in which the ACC was not represented in the...